Nurturing and Healing Your Inner Child

Every child deserves nurturing and security, but some children don’t have it. Each of us has the desire to be cared for, loved and nurtured. That little child inside of you, (even when you are an adult), is called your “inner child” or your inner spirit. Sometimes, the people who raised you aren’t capable of giving the love and support that you deserved. Healing can happen if you direct caring thoughts and behaviors inward toward the child inside of you.

Your inner child is a free spirit that is emotional, sensitive, fun-loving, joyful, imaginative, and creative.

Your childhood spirit may have been tamed, lost, or forgotten, but it is still somewhere inside you.

It can influence our decisions, even when we are unaware, because our inner child is part of our beliefs about ourselves.

That inner child may need healing and support if it was hurt, neglected, frustrated, or abused during childhood. Even if you have masked, or hidden the inner child, it may be causing you to be worried and fearful of being treated badly.

People often ignore their inner child if they have felt guilty or “not good enough.”

Our inner child may be hidden if we had to pretend our family was happy and healthy, even when it wasn’t.

Sometimes when we dream or daydream, we can picture what the little child is like.

We know our inner child is active when we:

Lose ourselves in fun

Enjoy playing with games, toys, or pets

Get emotional looking at old photo albums, scrapbooks or home movies about our childhood

Still think as a child does, seeking to please parents or extended families